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Zebra cake!!

As I previously posted, Sam has been very specific in her birthday cake requests.
This is the sketch she gave me…

So, she wanted the bottom layer to be zebra skin to match her room.
I treated myself to some new cake pans yesterday, so I baked the cakes last night. I mixed all the fondant colours yesterday too, so I am all set to go. Except the fact that I forgot to buy vanilla icing, and just don’t have enough time to make it from scratch, so I used chocolate icing instead. let’s hope it doesn’t show through the white fondant!

Then I started with the white fondant…

Rolled it flat, so that it was big enough to cover the cake…

Btw, notice that I rolled the fondant on a sheet of waxed paper…very important! If you don’t use waxed paper, your fondant has a good chance of being connected to your tabletop! It also makes it so much easier to lift, as you will see…
Then I rolled out a piece of black fondant as thin as I could roll it.

I used a paring knife to slice the black fondant into strips. I tried to cut the strips so at least one end was pointed.

Then I picked up the strips and placed them onto the white fondant…

I continued until the entire circle of white fondant was covered.

Then I put a sheet of waxed paper on top and rolled the two layers together.

This pastry tool worked really well to smooth it out…

To put it on the cake, I flipped it over using the waxed paper on the top and bottom.

Then I rolled the fondant onto the cake…

Smoothed it out…

And trimmed the edges…

Ta-da! Bottom layer of cake zebrafied! Now all I have to do is make the animals, rainbow, trees, and background.

I had trouble with the speed falling off after moving to the cake, did you secure them on the white with water or just rolled it in? I mistakenly rolled the fondant onto the pin to lay on cake instead of lifting by waxed paper. Did you have trouble with that?

I don’t think I added any water, from what I remember, the black colour would rub onto the white if it got wet. I use wax paper on the top and bottom of everything I roll out. I did try to keep it covered so it stayed moist and didn’t dry out. And, I did roll it quite a bit to stick them together. Hope that helps!